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March 2010

In Star Trek, members of the crew carry a tablet-like device called the PADD, or Personal Access Display Device. It comes in many shapes and flavors -- there's even a horizontal one. And circa 2151, the device that was in common use looked pretty muc...

One of the largest BitTorrent search engines in the world, Isohunt, has been ordered by a U.S. judge to remove all infringing content from their website. The ruling follows a similar ruling against torrent tracker Mininova, which has lost a great dea...

TUAW has a preview of an iPad application called Game Table. It costs 99 cents, and it lets you play classic board games such as Chess, Poker or Checkers on the iPad. The beauty of its approach is the fact that it's not really a game -- it just gives...

Who doesn't love magic? Whether you're obsessed with finding out "how they did that," or you just like to gaze with child-like wonder at a good trick, YouTube has become a wealthy repository of illusion. As with most things on YouTube, it's not all a...

Google became true-blue crime-fighting tool for one Florida Panhandle deputy this week. The law man, Deputy Gregory Barnes, recently made use of Google Earth to arrest a man charged with illegally dumping his one-ton boat. When Dwight Everett Foster ...

It’s only been a week since Justin.tv for iPhone hit the App Store, but the live video streaming service is already reporting some big numbers. Specifically, the company says that its app has already been downloaded 355,000 times, making it the numbe...

Industrial designers Rahul Mahtani and Yofred Moik have conceptualized the addition of a "Send Envelope" button that would enable users to quickly send a physical letter -- rather than an e-mail -- with spiffy Google Maps-esque packaging. They call t...

Last night Facebook experienced a hiccup during an update to the site's code that publicly exposed members' private e-mail addresses. The privacy blunder was first discovered by Gawker -- which estimates that e-mail addresses were exposed for 30 minu...

Starting today, YouTube will look dramatically different for everyone. That's because the Google-owned video website will be rolling out its redesign to all users over the next few hours -- the rollout should be complete by 7:00 p.m. today. You may h...

Last week we learned that Bing was to add Foursquare data to Bing Maps. Today the company is rolling out those Foursquare features to a subset of users in a new addition to its Maps Apps section. Those with access to the Foursquare integration can no...

European budget airline easyJet is poised to become the first airline company to enable users to plan and book flights entirely on Facebook. easyJet currently offers a "Holiday Planner" Facebook app that helps fans plan trips with their friends throu...

Here's some good news for Target shoppers. The Starbucks Card Mobile iPhone application can be now used to pay for Starbucks purchases via barcode scan at more than 1,000 Target locations across the United States. Starbucks has also updated the appli...

Popular satirical newspaper and website The Onion is set to debut its iPhone application on Friday. The app seems to be a much more serious mobile play from the publisher than the microfiche app that it launched last year. The app offers a few differ...

Appcelerator recently conducted a study to find out how much interest developers have in the iPad, iPhone, Android and other mobile platforms. As the iPad launch nears, we’re getting glimpses of more and more iPad applications. But how much interest ...

Come on, you know that's one of the first questions that crosses your mind when you get a Facebook invite -- whether you're male or female. Well, wonder no more -- there's a new app on the block that will determine this burning question for you: Saus...

Jacob Gube is the Founder/Chief Editor of Six Revisions, a popular web development and design site and the Deputy Editor of Design Instruct, a web magazine for designers. He has over seven years of experience as professional web developer and has wri...

Jim Tobin is president of Ignite Social Media, where he works work with clients including Microsoft, Intel, Nature Made, The Body Shop, Disney and more implementing social media marketing strategies. He is also author of the book “Social Media is a C...

Twitter lists are a great way to find new groups of people to follow on Twitter, and share your favorite follows with friends. To help you find and follow interesting lists, we've created the Mashable Twitter List Directory. The idea is pretty simple...

Encoding.com announced today that it now supports HTTP Streaming for both the iPhone and the iPad. For years, different companies have offered publishers and developers the ability to serve content at variable bit rates. That means that when you're w...

This post is part of Mashable's Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Na...

A new geolocation app for the iPhone was released today called Rally Up. What differentiates Rally Up from the likes of Foursquare and Gowalla is that it has a strong focus on privacy and content sharing. Rally Up bills itself as "a social network fo...

We're at countdown T-3 days until the launch of the iPad, and the first official reviews are starting to roll in. ABC News was able to produce one of the first video previews, which we've embedded below. The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg calls ...

Chalk it up to April Fool's Day paranoia, but when we came across news that the official Travelocity gnome was using Chatroulette for business purposes we were a tad skeptical. The screenshots sent to us by Travelocity confirm that the gnome is lurki...

It comes as a shock to no one that Hulu is most probably working on an iPad app, as four different sources have told The New York Times. Those sources also say the company is interested in testing out a subscription model in the iPad version. Hulu CE...

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